True Image Home 10 Release imminent ?

Are you saying it looks like a case of Nero my Software to Thee? ;-)

 

I tend to agree with you bobdat. How much of this can be blamed on the infamous Acronis Wish-List thread or on simple marketting pressure is anyone's guess.

Personally, I'm not interested in any of the files and folders features and moved from Power Quest DriveImage to True Image some years ago because of it superior disk imaging capability. There are more file and folders backup programs out there than you can shake a stick at, therefore I'd be delighted if Acronis brought out a Home User version of True Image that concentrated soley on disk imaging and cloning. This should have the added features of image archive management without use of scripts and the inclusion of a user friendly Acronis Universal Restore, plus a BartPE Plugin for those odd occassions when the Acronis boot rescue CD fails to work correctly. Imaging and restoring to/from a Network Attached Storage device would be nice too.

Now that I wouldn't mind upgrading for . Ah well, dream on Menorcaman, dream on... .

Regards

 

Acronis would have been better served by never issuing v.9 without in-house beta testing to the n-th degree. Now they expect this from their beta slaves with a new version when v.9 is still basically BETA? Personally, I hope none accept the offer to beta test v.10 until vesion 9 (BETA) is finished to perfection. If version 9 isn't finished and therefore taken out of beta status, which it still is in reality, I think Acronis may be really finished this time.

Allen

 

On the other hand (playing the devil's advocate?), there is more that goes into a software company's upgrade plans than programming considerations. The corporate/marketing folks play a big role, bugs be damned, not to mention pressure from competitiors. Acronis is not immune.

 

I have my credit card ready for that, too!

 

I very much agree with bobdat, Menorcaman and Allen L, though I don't seriously believe our pleading will make Acronis correct their course.

What bulldog356 says is, indeed, a fact of business life, but I have the feeling that Acronis have been overdoing that part lately. To their own harm, possibly - as well as ours, who like True Image and value the minds that created it.

 

And, therein lies the central issue. You, and Menorcaman, and I, just want a few more features, and will gladly pay for them. Which features should Acronis include, and which leave off? How to please those who use several internal hard drives to make and restore images, and at the same time those with a laptop with only one hard drive, and some important files they wish to preserve.

I would like to see this program deliver what it promises, and leave off the marketing flourishes. We all know that no imaging program or files backup utility is bomb-proof, so why pretend that it is? Compute with confidence, eh? Let's just compute with reality, and figure out how to make this all work.

I think that making us users happy should be uppermost at Acronis. But, they may see things differently, be trying to one-up the competition, and win places in the ratings...

Regards

 

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I'm laughing out loud now, because I just read a post from someone who's trying to install the German version of TI 10, but can't.

So, let me get this straight. We don't have TI 10 available, in English, yet we are the support forum for TI 10? Go figure.

(Sorry, I mean no disrespect...my ancestry is German, Polish, and Estonian - but I don't read German)

I wonder what sort of support forum Acronis Beta testers have? Anyone heard?

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The official line from Acronis...had a 'chat' with them today...is that 10 was recently released in Germany, but no release date has been decided for the U.S. I guess that means it's on the way.

Why don't I ever get to chat with the girl in the picture?

 

Sorry you may be experiencing difficulties...wait, that's their line...

She isn't compatible with your chipset, dummy.


Here's the link to the English TI 10 User Guide:

http://download.acronis.com/pdf/TrueImage10_ug.en.pdf

 

The only picture I saw on that link is of a guy holding his head in obvious anguish. I wonder why ?

Bulldog, You are of course free to chat with the girl in your picture. The difficulty is getting the answer you require on a timely basis.
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I hope the new version has the trouble logging process automated -- you knw, the bootiong and making the sysinfo file or doing screen captures, etc. It's too much to ask of the average user.

 

If I understand correctly, Menorcam and some others would like a stripped down version of ATI. Others certainly would not. I'd rather Acronis made a version were a number of the features are options that you can include or exclude at setup. One program can't be all things to all folks, but it's nice to have options.

Basic imaging will be included in Vista, so some that want a stripped down version will probably be happy with that, the same way some are happy with the built in defragger, media player, etc. in Win.

 

All of these things will be ironed out by v.10.0.9999999999999999999, if version 11 doesn't come out first. It is the new Acronis 'way'. If one version doesn't succeed, and just gets way too hard to solve the outstanding issues, then see if they (the customers) will forget, forgive and start beta testing the next new version, in this case v.10. That's it!!

Looks like most users of this group are staying with some version of 9 for the time being...but I can see breakage in the ranks...some are getting interested. A new 'herd' of beta testers, foaming at the mouth, are trotting around the bend to line up, with money in hand to 'upgrade' to the latest &... well just leave it latest...should be 'greatest' version, but in this case, I refrain.

Allen

 

Sheiber,

This is absolutely the best idea I've heard in a long time!

Perhaps this handy new feature could be enabled by default in the setup options screen...

>>> Restore Image to partition T/ reboot/ send screenshot and error report to TI/ reboot... <<<

Then TI V 10 could email us a copy of the successfully completed operation

 

I read somewhere (so it may not be true) that Vista will have imaging and restoring. But only from within Vista. No good if you have a hard drive failure.

 

Or from any bootable Vista disc - CD or DVD...

 

My fearless forecast is that most apps will shortly have new versions if only to be able to officially support Vista and, if not done so already, to support 64bit systems.

And, I also forecast, that few, if any, new versions will suppor tanything older than Windows 2000, if even that.

 

Well there's a surprise .

Might soon be time for you to abandon your beloved Win2K then Howard .

 

I just checked the weather forecast.
Hell has not yet frozen over.

 

I checked the "what's new" bit in the user manual that was posted here. I'm surprised they even have the balls to make it a full version jump.

Ah well, ATI9 works fine for what I need it for, so they won't see any upgrade money from me.

 

Well, if not a full version jump, it would be pretty hard to justify leaving Howard stranded on the ice...

Since support for older OSes will be dropped in V10, I doubt that any other approach is feasible.

If the few published changes Acronis reveals with each new build hold true, there will be many more changes in V10, beneath the GUI. Hopefully, most of those changes will be improvements, and work as intended.

Of course, none of this suggests that support for our current version(s) should cease.

Can our friends in Germany weigh in? How is TI 10 working?

Here's the link to the English TI 10 User Guide:

http://download.acronis.com/pdf/TrueImage10_ug.en.pdf

 

I went one step further, and compared the PDF for version 9 and 10 user guides.

IMNSHO, not enough differences to warrant a version jump, especially as it does not claim to support Vista.

Of equal interest is how many bugs will remain in version 9 if there are no more updates to version 9.

 

I have removed 2 posts from this thread since they related to how to moderate the Acronis forum

Anyway of course this thread has been closely watched - posters here are voicing their frustration etc without crossing the line so far. That works quite well for all. Certainly if people move into the realm of bashing or off-topic such as the two I have removed, that will be moderated. Anyway- back to topic - "True Image Home 10 Release..."

 

Here's a post that sheds an interesting light on the future of TI 9 support:

Re: Will there be more updates to TI9 Home?